this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service, look

you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap him soundly, sir:

well, was it fit for a servant to use his master so, being perhaps,

for aught I see, two-and-thirty, a [pip] [out]?

[Whom] would to God I had well knock'd at first,

Then had not Grumio come by the worst.

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Pet. A senseless villain! Good Hortensio,

I bade the rascal knock upon your gate

And could not get him for my heart to do it.